Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-01-27
LANSING LOGIC,
The Legislature Elects q Senator Several
Bills Passed. General News from the
State Capital.
LANsIN0, January pa, 1sSI.


Bills Passed General News from the
State Capital.
LANSING, January "A, 1887.
The most important event In legislative
circles the past week was the election Il =
United States senator. The vote was
taken separately in each house In the
senate Stockbridge received p votes, and
Us votes were cast for him in the house.
The final formalities of the election
were concluded the day following the
election in joint session of the two
houses and the Hon. Francis Is.
Stockbridge officially declared to have
been chosen for the full term of six years
from the 4th of March, 1885, The result Of
the vote in each house was announced by
President pro tenn. Monroe of the senate,
who presided over the joint convention,
and Immediately thereafter the. conven-
ton adjourned.
One OF the afternoon sessions OF the
house was devoted to the special order OF
memorial services in honor of the late
Ovid n. Case of Detroit. Speeches eulo-
CYSTIC of the character and virtues OF the
deceased were made. Memorial resolutions
were introduced and adopted. and the
whole ordered printed in the journals of the
house. A yet mora substantial method OF
testifying to the worth and usefulness OF
the deceased, was when the vote to
salary promptly prevailed. The SEN
ate has set apart Fri lay, Jan. %, for mem
orial services on the life and death of the
late representative.
The senate has passed the bill relating to
the discharge of mortgages, one incorpo-
rating the village of Carsonville, and spent
considerable time discussing the bill relat
ing to the determination of marriages and
the issuing of licenses therefor. The bill
proposes radical changes in the marriage
laws of the state, but in spite OF its radical
nature il is strongly endorsed by the clergy
and legal fraternity of the state.
The house has pas, ed bills providing for
appointment of an assistant prosecuting
attorney for Bay county at an annual
salary of $1,000; to punish drunk and IN
toxicated persons: to amend the act rela-
tive to offenses against property, and
several relating to charters of various
villages and cities.
The bill introduced at the beginning Of
the present session TO punish Bohemian
oat rascals and other swindlers in
cereals has been favorably reported
and will undoubtedly become "a law
as the prevailing sentiment seems to
be in favor of protecting such of our rural
community as are sufficiently gullible to
be taken in by these agents.
In committee of the whole the house
passed the Breen bill for the suppression
of the infamous dance houses of the upper
peninsula. Mr. Breen, the author of the
Dill, made an eloquent and effective argu-
ment depicting the horrors of the system
by which young girls are enticed into the
dance houses OF the mining camps under
false representations, and then compelled
TO give themselves up to lives of shame,
and very graphically described the method
n r. n hn N a 70 MR. tphn la.
escaped, by putting dogs on their trails.
The bill rs passed by the house, punishe,
with five years imprisonment, any person
connected with these dens.
One measure which ilicited considerable
discussion and which was defeated by a
large majority, was that TO require circuit
and supreme court judges to transmit to
the governor certain recommendations rs
to the amendment of the statutes.
The bill to repeal the act establishing
standard time called forth an ANNA
ted debate. 1t was very noticeable
that the division of sentiment was about
on sectional lines as between the east and
the west although one of the members
bill. When the roll was called 40 members
voted aye and Az voted in the negative.
The bill relating to offenses against the
lives and persons OF individuals involving
the raising of 1.-The age of consent to Is
years, come in for a share of the attention
of the house. Floods of petitions are
pouring in every day, asking for the pas
sage of the bill. The petitions all pray for
the IS year limit The age limit is the pivo-
tai point of the measure, some favoring 10
years, and not small constituency sup
port the Is year limit.
Lansing society Is on the q,ii yiUe about
the reception to Gov. and Mrs. Luce, Miss
Luce and the new state officials, to be
rendered by Ex-Gov. Alger at Detroit, on
the 18th proximo.
In executive session the senate has con-
sidered and approved a number of the
governors appointments.
In reply to the request upon Gov. Luce
from the president of the southern forestry
congress asking him TO name some promi-
nent person from Michigan TO whose men,
DRY tree might be dedicated in the the
circle (around the great spring. represent
ing the American union, the governor
selected Zacbariah Chandler and said, in
his reply, that Michigan would be highly
honored and complimented by this action
of the southern forestry congress.
A resolution was introduced in the house
during the week reciting that whereas
certain newspapers of the state contain
limitations and charges against the good
management OF the soldiers home at
Grand Rapids; insinuating and charging
that the institution is mismanaged: that
its inmates are neglected and abused and
used like dogs, and that it is n hell rather
than humane institution, therefore re-
solved (the senate concurring), that Sc
lect committee consisting of three men,
bers of the house and two of the senate be
appointed to investigate the insinuations
and charges of bad management at that
institution.
"Resolved further, that said committee
be and it Is hereby authorized to hold ses-
sions at the soldiers home or elsewhere,
to administer oaths, to enforce the attend
ploying clerk or stenographer therefor il
necessary--and to perform all such duties
as it shall decide best to ascertain fully the
truth or falsity of such newspaper insin-
uations and charges and report their do
ings to this legislature at the earliest pos
sible day."
The governor has signed the bills author
izing the village of Blissfield to borrow
money to build new bridge, and also the
measure asking congress to pass the Miller
bill to prevent contagion among domestic
animals.
Funeral Of Four.
The funeral of four of the victims of the
Baltimore e. Ohio wreck ut Republic, o.,
on the 4th inst, was held ut Republic in
the town hall, on the 18th inst. Eleven
clergyman ofiiciated, the sermon being
preached by Rev. M. Dewitt Long Of